A workshop with Sarah Werner What does it mean to teach with primary materials? With access to digital facsimiles of many of the works we teach, often in high resolution, what do students gain from going to a special collections library and working with original materials? This workshop will take an object-centered approach to pedagogy for both teachers and librarians...

—a lecture given by Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary, University of London Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Studies, the European History Colloquium, and the UCLA Department of History What did an eighteenth-century politician do all day? The meaning and mechanisms of eighteenth-century high politics have long been debated. Was government personal, local and the possession of a...

—a special conference organized by Joseph Bristow (UCLA), Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa), Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College), and Charlotte Ribeyrol (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Co-hosted by the International Walter Pater Society “Curiosity, and the desire of beauty, have each their place in art, as in all true criticism. When one’s curiosity is deficient, when one is not eager enough for new impressions...

—a conference organized by Malina Stefanovska (UCLA) and Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge (Université de Tours) Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Université de Tours, and the FACE Foundation Partner University Fund This 1 ½ day conference will bring together scholars of various literatures and cultures in the...